Today we will be embarking on the first steps of publishing our writing. After you have revised and editing your writing a final time, we will put all of our written pieces in a shared document. To do this you will need to do the following steps.
Click here to open the document
Once there, go back to your writing. Copy your writing by highlighting the entire document and right clicking.
Go back to the shared document, look for your name. Copy and paste your document.
***Don't worry if it spread between two pages. We will fix that later. Please be sure any pictures you have are where you want them to be. We can play around with them to ensure they don't move around on you.
To create this document, I started in Office 365 and created a new document, named it and then hit share. Next you will change the preferences to "People in your organization" to make it at least a little bit harder for someone else to mess around with! Then you will copy the link and share it with students. This can be done through email, Notebook or your classroom website. Students access this link and then add their writing.
***This is the perfect time to talk about digital citizenship, as students have access to each others' work. It's important they always keep a copy themselves in case something was to happen. I also take the link off once we are done.
Once all the documents are on the shared document, I print out the whole document. We meet in groups and edit together. This also gives me time to meet with students that need extra help. I meet with kids individually to revise and edit a final time (10 more times).
After the document is perfect and beautiful, we get to the physical publishing stage. I have used two websites - https://www.lulu.com/ and https://chatbooks.com/ Lulu.com is fantastic for books with lots of text. Chatbooks is great for books made mostly with pictures.
How to Upload a Book to Lulu
How to Upload a Book to Lulu
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Students - Do not forget to include your first name and last initial!